CA Measles Outbreak Expands: 51 People Confirmed Sick

An outbreak of measles thought to have originated in Anaheim’s Disneyland amusement park earlier
this week has now expanded throughout Southern California, with 45 cases now
confirmed in the state and an additional six cases confirmed in three
other states and Mexico.

The 51 confirmed cases is nearly double the number reported
earlier in the week, according to the Los
Angeles Times.

Health officials had initially warned Southern California
residents that those who visited the Disneyland or California Adventure theme parks
between Dec. 17-20 could be at increased risk for contracting the infection.

Officials told the Times that the measles outbreak
has since spread to those who did not visit the theme parks between those
dates.

Orange County reportedly confirmed six new cases in people
who did not visit the theme parks recently, bringing the total number of
infections in the county to 16.

“The identification of six measles cases with acquisition
from unknown community contacts indicates exposure to measles is more
widespread throughout the county,” Orange County health officials said in a
statement. “The Health Care Agency expects that the measles outbreak will
continue to spread.”

Los Angeles County has the third-highest number of infections,
with eight, while Alameda County has four, Ventura County has three, and both
Riverside and San Bernardino have two each. In addition to the California
infections, two cases have been confirmed in both Utah and Washington and
one case has been confirmed in Colorado.

According to the Times, health
officials have long feared the consequences of an increasing number of parents
refusing to vaccinate their children. Dr. Mark Grabowsky, a health
official at the United Nations, wrote
about the problem in the Journal of the American Medical
Association-Pediatrics last year:

The greatest threat to the U.S. vaccination program may now
come from parents’ hesitancy to vaccinate their children. Although this
so-called vaccine hesitancy has not become as widespread in the United States
as it appears to have become in Europe, it is increasing. Many measles
outbreaks can be traced to people refusing to be vaccinated; a recent large
measles outbreak was attributable to a church advocating the refusal of measles
vaccinations.

Dr. Eric Handler of the Orange County Health Agency issued a
letter to parents this week, warning them that their children could
be excluded from school activities if they have not received a measles
vaccination.

“Measles is an infection that spreads very easily through
the air,” Dr. Handler wrote. “Simply being in the same room with someone who
has measles is enough to become infected. Because measles is so contagious, it
can spread rapidly once introduced and cause outbreaks, especially in schools
or day cares where immunization rates are low.”

Symptoms of measles can include fever, eye redness, and
runny nose. However, the disease is primarily known for causing a red rash to
spread over the body.

“If you have symptoms, and believe you may have been
exposed, please contact your healthcare provider,” California Department of
Public Health director Dr. Ron Chapman advised in a department
bulletin. “The best way to prevent measles and its spread is to get
vaccinated.”

According to the Times, the last deadly measles
outbreak in California occurred between 1988-1991, when 75 people died as a
result of the infection. Most of those who died were babies and children under
five years of age.

Disneyland

Steve
Jobs was a director at the Walt
Disney Company, married to Laurene
Powell Jobs, a major contributor for the 2011 Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign, and a co-founder & chairman
for Apple Inc.

Note: Laurene Powell
Jobs was married to Steve Jobs,
and a director at the New America
Foundation.

Eric E. Schmidt is the chairman of the New
America Foundation, was a director
at Apple Inc., a funder for the New America Foundation,and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Dora
Hughes is a senior policy adviser for Sidley
Austin LLP, and was Kathleen
Sebelius’s counselor at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) was Dora
Hughes, and she was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.

Barack
Obama is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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